Biden’s victory in the state, which has encouraged Republican leaders such as Barry Goldwater and John McCain for national prowess, could predict difficulties ahead for the party. Three key changes to the state have helped Democrats this year: a growing Latino population that lends to Democrats, an increase in voters going to Arizona from more liberal states like California and Illinois, and suburban voters with a Republican-led party. Like Trump.
Arizona is turning blue and moving closer to its neighbor – Nevada, where Democrats have taken control of almost all aspects of government – and away from the traditional right-wing leanings of the state.
The Democratic victory – announced days after CNN predicted Biden’s victory in the presidential race – was the home of Phoenix, by Maricopa County, and about 60% of the state’s population. Maricopa is the fastest growing country in the country, transforming a vast area of metropolitan hubs, sun-burned planned communities and a throbbing strip mall over the past two decades.
“Marikopa County won the state of Arizona for Mark Kelly and Biden,” said Steven Slogoki, president of Marikopa County Democrats. “Here at Maricopa, we committed our resources to contact voters from the state, color, women and traditionally represented groups. Our strategy proved effective.”
Biden is the second Democrat to win Arizona since 1948, when Harry Trump did not win. Bill Clinton won the state soon after in 1996, but over the next two decades Arizona went further, electing hard-line supporters such as the government, General Brewer, and Maricopa County Sheriff JPRPIOs, and passing laws such as SB 1070 Is the law. If there is a “reasonable suspicion” of illegal immigration, authorities will have to investigate immigration while enforcing other laws.
The Democratic victory is based on the work done by grassroots organizations in Arizona, many of which have united to oppose the Arpais and immigration crackdowns and focus on the state’s growing Latino population. These groups provided the state’s democratic apparatus – which had a slight victory in 2010 – to develop the building blocks as an effective force that enabled it to win a Senate seat in 2018, and, just two years later, others. Senate seat and presidency.
“This year has been a victory for the state’s decade-plus work,” said Laura Dente, executive director of Chispa Arizona, one of several organizations that have formed a coalition called MIZ, an alliance of six groups. Over the years it has worked to engage voters, especially Latinos. “It’s been more than a decade of construction and the constant work of planning between election cycles has been crucial.”
Dante said planning around the SB1070 was a “catalyst” on the show this year for these groups to come together around something and “build that collective strength”. Since 2018 alone, Chispa has registered 44,000 voters in Arizona alone, and has made 1.3 million calls to voters in Arizona this year.
This change will be felt again in Arizona and Washington, D.C., as top party workers try to figure out how to lose a state like Arizona, which was seen as a Republican folk just six years ago. Key question: Will the state’s growing democracy keep Arizona out of reach in the coming years?
Before rejecting the Trump-led Republican Party, Yasher Sanchez, an immigration lawyer who volunteered for Republican Meet Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and worked for McCain’s 2016 election, said: “I thought that by 2024, Arizona would be a real . ” Assistance in organizing Latino voters for Biden. “Whenever I heard it would be before, I thought it was a wishful thinking.”
The rise to Biden’s victory is the legacy of McCain, an Arizona defender whose “Maverick” rhetoric led the Democrats, Independents and Republicans to a coalition in the state for years. There was a strained relationship between Trump and McCain, and tensions erupted when Senator voted against President Obamacare’s repeal bill, doubling down on Trump’s Republican senator’s mocking attacks, even though he died in 2018. Trump encouraged McCain’s widow, Cindy McCain, to support Biden, along with comments he made about military members and veterans, which was front-page news in the state.
Republicans like Chad Headwood, a former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, argue that a Democratic victory does not bring significant change to the state.
“This was a purple state that looked red in the Obama years.” Haywood said that if the president lost the state by less than a percentage point, it would not be a “massive maritime change in Arizona.”
But Arizona was so credibly reddened in 2014 that a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California-Los Angeles, called Suburban Mesa, spread east of Phoenix, called it “the most expensive American city.”
Mesa Mayor John Giles said that ten years ago, if you wanted to be politically relevant and if you had an impact on your vote, you would be foolish to register as a Democrat because they failed to field a candidate for some office. Registered Republicans in non-party jobs. “And even then, he was just a volunteer to be killed in general by Republicans.”
The last decade, however, has become more ethnically and politically diverse, as has the area around Menis-Phoenix, leading Giles to say, “The situation is no longer precise. It’s extremely competitive.”
Giles said the main reason people were moving to the area – like the biden-backing transplant from Chicago to Amy Schaefer, who moved to Phoenix in 2019.
“I hope to turn the state blue,” Schaefer said after casting his vote. “Trust me, I’ve tried to turn everyone around as much as I can.”
As much as things are changing because of people like Schaefer of Arizona, they are also changing because of a 62-year-old computer engineer from Phoenix, a registered Republican like Hoodlike, who voted for Romney in 2012 and was a big fan of McCain. But Hoodock or his wife, Chris, voted for Biden in 2020.
“Trump is a threat to the country,” Hoodock said after voting before election day. “Over the last four years, Republicans have shown their true colors. … I wish there was a centrist party.”
Democrats believe they were competitive in Arizona, it was the coronavirus that shook the state during the summer, due to the state government’s decision to allow its stay-at-home order to expire in May.
Prior to the coronavirus, national Republican officials told CNN that “no question” Arizona was the main battlefield but they “did not worry about Arizona turning blue.”
It changed rapidly as the virus spread across the state, with more than 160,000 cases and 3,600 deaths in Maricopa County alone.
Both Trump and Biden supporters are feeling the effects of the virus. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. For many of Biden’s supporters, the coronavirus was on the mind, and many blamed Trump, citing personal experiences mostly with the epidemic because they chose to back Biden.
“The way Biden reacts to certain things (about the virus) gives me a different perspective on how much he cares,” said Nikki Towns, 18, of Chandler, who was the first to vote for Biden. On controlling the virus by Trump: “I don’t think he really controlled it. It’s being ignored.”
Biden’s victory in Arizona was not due to a lack of effort on Trump’s part. The President held seven events in the state in 2020. Biden held an event after the Democratic National Convention during the summer, which included a bus tour around Maricopa in October.
To Slogoki, those visits did little to divert voters’ attention to education, health care, and the economy.
“Clearly, voters wanted something new from Arizona. Voters were tempted to vote enthusiastically. Maricopa County elections are safe, secure and transparent,” the county party president said. “There’s a bright future ahead for Maricopa County and I can’t stay ahead.”
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